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The speaker believes language models’ format is poorly suited to reliably performing jobs, but a purpose-built harness can enable them to do so.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“doing some job i think it's like ridiculous that we can't do that and it's part of the reason is like the the format of a language model is not really amenable to that but i think you can shape a harness around it and do it and i think like this in itself is like ignoring the rlm stuff ignoring all the like you know what abstraction should we use like i just think someone can design a harness that can do this like i i i mean that's maybe”Play from 1:22:49Report a misattribution
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